Opportunity Motorsports Winds Down 2006 Season with Marquee Events in Winchester, Nashville.

Opportunity Motorsports (OM) and Circle Bound Racing (CBR) are busily preparing for the final events of the 2006 CRA Super Series racing season, the Winchester 400 and the All-American 400.
The 35th Annual Winchester 400 on the weekend of October 13-15 will feature Super Late Model cars and stars from all across the United States competing in a grueling 400-lap endurance event on the high-banked half mile in East Central Indiana.

The team will be entering two Electrical Automation Services sponsored teams in this world-famous event, with the team’s primary number 14 car featuring nineteen-year-old Hartsville, TN native Zach Taylor, who’s fourth place effort in the spring race at the Winchester Speedway was his career best finish, in only his second career start, and first at the daunting speedway.  Taylor immediately fell in love with the track, saying nearly every week “We need to go back to Winchester!”

Acting as teammate to the young Taylor is veteran wheelman Chet Blanton, who’s career best finish came in this event in 1999, when he came home a strong fourth.  Blanton’s long-time love affair with the high banks of Winchester have him returning for the 400 after a very strong run in the Labor Day weekend event at the Speedway, in which he declared “that’s the best car I’ve ever had at Winchester”.

The two teams will feature Electrical Automation Services of Greencastle, IN for this event, along with the Purdue University College of Engineering, ARC Racing Engines, ARP Stock Car Bodies, and Saldana Radiators.  Strong runs in both previous 2006 events at the Winchester Speedway have the OM/CBR team expecting good results in this famous event, bringing the 2006 season to a successful end, on the way to the All-American 400 in Nashville.

The 35th Annual Winchester 400 weekend begins on Friday, October 13th with qualifying, and ends on Sunday, October 15th with the running of the Winchester 400 at 1:00 p.m.

The 2006 racing season comes to a close at the famous Music City Motorplex in Nashville, TN with the running of one of the most prestigious events of the year for the Super Late Model race teams, the All-American 400.  The All-American 400 weekend features a 200-lap ASA Late Model series event, coupled with a 200-lap CRA Super Series non-points race.

Opportunity Motorsports will field a vehicle in both races, as Zach Taylor will attempt to complete the double at his home track, running his own number 98 Quality Care Nursing Home ASA Late Model and the number 14 CBR machine in the CRA Super Series event to follow.

The team has visited Nashville twice during the 2006 season, but has not achieved the results desired, winning the non-qualifier’s race in March’s All-American 150, and finishing fifteenth in July’s All American Super Late Model event.  The team looks to build on these results, as well as an improved setup, on their way to successful showings in these season finale weekend events, and to build some off-season momentum for the start of the 2007 season.

The All-American 400 races take place on Sunday, November 5th with the ASA Late Model event taking the green at 1:00 p.m. and the CRA Super Series event going off immediately following.

-Dan Hobbs

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